Latest News for Oracle VADs in Europe, Middle-East & Africa

Monday Jan 19, 2015

Join
Oracle and IDC as they kick off the Cloud Platform Online Forum
on January 28
at 10:00am PT with a keynote led by IDC analyst Robert Mahowald.
Learn how to
rapidly build, deploy, manage, and secure rich applications
while using an
integrated cloud platform built on the industry’s #1 Database
and Application
Server. Register to attend this live online event according to
your specialty
or line of business: architect, DBA, IT manager, developer, or applications IT.

Inform
your
partners that Database 11g is scheduled to become non-qualifying beginning May 1. Are your partners planning accordingly to migrate
towards the new
version of Database 12c. Review Database 12c criteria and start working
towards it now.

What
happens when extreme performance meets extreme savings?
Encourage your partners
to find out on January 21 as Larry Ellison unveils the
datacenter of the
future. Partners can register here and join the conversation by using #datacenter in tweets and
posts.

Tuesday Jan 13, 2015

With more than 15 million active installs, MySQL Enterprise is the
leading open source database solution behind many of today’s Web applications.
Five of the five top websites are powered by MySQL – even Twitter, Facebook and
eBay rely on the scalability and cost-effective nature of MySQL. Download this new marketing kit and learn why MySQL is the best choice for web
and cloud applications.

Software in Silicon Cloudis a new revolutionary technology with
security, database and increased capacity benefits. ISV partners and enterprise
developers can request early access to Software in Silicon by watching this
short video. A live webinar is also being offered
by ISV Engineering on January 21 at 8am PST. Encourage your partners to attend
to learn how to use the new Software in Silicon Cloud to dramatically improve
reliability and security and accelerate application performance. Register
today!

Introducing Oracle Solaris Kernel ZonesA quick introduction
to Kernel Zones, the newest type of Oracle Solaris Zones, which provides all
the flexibility, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle Solaris Zones while
adding the capability to have zones with independent kernels.

Streamline Cloning Oracle Databases for
Development and Testing
DBAs can get help streamlining the cloning process of a database for
development and test efforts, using the Oracle Snap Management Utility (SMU)
for Oracle Database. The SMU software coordinates storage cloning from
the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance with the process to mount the new clone to a
database host from a single interface. Reduce cloning for development databases
from weeks to minutes and accelerate dev/test with SMU.

Oracle FS1: The
Most Intelligent Flash Storage SystemFind out how Oracle FS1’s
QoS Plus and Auto-Tiering intelligently delivers flash performance when you
need it and reduces costs by moving data automatically to lower-cost media when
you don’t—all driven by business priorities.

Friday Jan 09, 2015

The Value-based Project Registration initiative is a complement to
Oracle's existing Open Market Model (OMM) Resale Registration Initiative
and provides partners a new option for registration at the project
level.

Monday Dec 22, 2014

Read IDC's recent
white
paper,
which examines opportunities and challenges related to cloud
technology
and services, the market situation from both customer and vendor
perspective,
and where Oracle excels.

With the
recent launch of new Oracle Cloud PaaS offerings, Oracle now
enables ISVs to
rapidly deploy + scale their applications in the public cloud
leveraging a
comprehensive portfolio of platform services. Attend this webinar to hear from Oracle Cloud strategy
experts about
how Oracle is delivering new, differentiated platform services,
as well as
related opportunities, resources and commercial models for ISVs.

Tuesday Dec 16, 2014

In 2015 the Exadata, Manageability and the Servers and Storage Partner Communities will celebrate a single joint Community Forum which will take place in Budapest, Hungary on April 14-16, 2015.

Oracle offers customers different alternatives for consolidation and modernization of the infrastructure to fulfill the requirements and needs of different types of customer, at the servers, storage, database and middleware layers.
At the same time customers have the option to build their DBaaS infrastructure on-premise, or use the Oracle Public Cloud.
During this Community Forum we will cover the different solutions and share experiences on a variety of customer cases and challenges.

Monday Dec 15, 2014

We are pleased to announce the EMEA Oracle Exadata Retrofit promotion,
now available until May 18, 2015 to Oracle Partners in EMEA. This
promotion provides Oracle VADs with additional discount when selling
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance to existing Exadata customers. To read the complete announcement, click here.

Encourage
your
partners to register for the Oracle
Fusion Middleware Partner
Community Forum
that
will be held in in Budapest on March 3 & 4, with hands-on
training on March
5 & 6. Partners will learn how to sell the value of Fusion
Middleware by
combining SOA, BPM, WebLogic and ADF & MAF. Attendees will
also have the
chance to meet with Oracle SOA, BPM, WebLogic and ADF Product
Management, and
exchange knowledge and have access to competitive intelligence.

Tuesday Dec 09, 2014

Newly certified partners will now be eligible for a 90-day
free trial of
Oracle Learning Streams! Oracle Learning Streams provides
access to
fresh, continuously updated video learning direct from Oracle
experts, and can
be viewed at any time during the trial. The 90-day trial begins
once a
candidate becomes certified at the Professional, Expert, Master
or Specialist
level. This new Oracle Certification benefit includes live
webinars on the
hottest topics, discussions with experts for live Q&A
sessions and ongoing
learning support. Check the Oracle University blog for more information on Oracle Learning Streams.

The OPN News
Blog is a valuable,
external-facing
resource that houses information for partners on Oracle product
announcements,
upcoming events, webinars, boot camps and more. Ensure your
partners are aware
of this resource and bookmark it for easy reference.